Who said you couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Several day’s worth of hard work later, the Suite has emerged with its new coat of paper, remarkably transformed, looking for the first time in over a century very nearly like a Victorian room:
The study looking south
Our piano, festooned with period tunes. That's Johnny the bobcat, by the way, our mascot; beneath his sharp claws poor old Eli the quail is down for the count
The study looking north; FDR's bedroom on the left, Lathrop's center. You can just glimpse "George," Lathrop's eight-point buck through the door, named by Judith Palfrey, our master, after our Foundation's dear Father George. "The white collar says it all." Amen to that.
FDR slept here...
Lest we forget: the Suite this past February, and the same view this afternoon, August 6, 2010.
What’s next? Window treatments, and – hopefully – more generous contributions from our friends and supporters, as our coffers are again growing bare…
Wow, that wallpaper is beautiful, goes really well with the woodwork and fireplace, and takes us to yet another level. Thanks, Michael.
Sean
Dear Emil.
The evidence for the Suite location is based on Lathrop’s Brown’s 1958 letter (you can see it here: http://fdrfoundation.org/brownletter.html), though the question of the room numbering (B-17 vs 27) has never been completely resolved.